Pranks! Plane Crashes! Polls!: It’s Election Day in the U.K.

Today is polling day in the United Kingdom, and oh, what an exciting polling day it is! There have not been any notable train wrecks since Gordon Brown called one of his own supporters a “bigot,” while miked, however, there was a (literal) plane crash today. Lo, Britain’s world-renowned empathy: “The outspoken [United Kingdom Independence Party] candidate Nigel Farage managed to upstage an entire general election today when he was injured in a plane crash during an election day stunt,” reports the Times. By all accounts, he seems to be fine. Other politicians suffered injuries of the soul: David Cameron, the Conservative Party candidate, was the victim of some class-conscious practical jokes. This morning, as he headed to the voting booth, some pranksters taunted him for attending a tony prep school. Protestors hung a poster on the polling station that “featured a picture of Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party, with the slogan OBritons know your place. Vote Eton ... vote Tory,’” says the AFP. It is like Armando Iannucci plus Monty Python over there.

As for the election itself, according to the Times: “A Populus poll for The Times put the Tories on 37 per cent with Labour on 28 and the Lib Dems on 27, representing a 6-point swing to the Conservatives.” Voting goes til 10 p.m. (5 p.m. EST)